Competing for Outsider Cash is the Name of the Game in US Politics ( lemmy.world )
SC Upholds Civil Asset Forfeiture ( lemmy.world )
Failed Social Movements In The US. And All The Ways Authoritarianism Squelched Them
I'm compiling a list of such American social movements. Everyone feel free to jump in. I'll start us off:...
Biden slaps new tariffs on Chinese imports, ratcheting trade war ( www.aljazeera.com )
Biden is conducting a trade war
Valedictorian Protest ( lemmy.world )
This is an open letter released in protest by the valedictorian of one of the graduating classes of 2024, whose commencement was canceled in order to prevent pro Palestinian protests from happening at the commencement....
It Do Be Like That ( lemmy.world )
Providence police will force two homeless encampments out. Where will they go? ( www.msn.com )
Encampment will be cleared this weekend...
America is a Capitalist Oligarchy
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Dozens arrested at Penn, MIT in latest U.S. crackdowns on Gaza protests ( www.msn.com )
By Julia Harte and Brendan O'Brien...
The Protests in Georgia Against the Foreign Funding Law Has America’s Fingerprints All Over It ( medium.com )
The 13th Amendment Bans Involuntary Servitude, “Except as Punishment for a Crime” ( lemmy.world )
On this day May 11, 1926 White Mob in Florida Lynches Black Man for Requesting Drink of Water ( lemmy.world )
On May 11, 1926, a white mob tortured and lynched a young Black man named Henry Patterson in LaBelle, Florida, for attempting to ask for a drink of water....
The US is a Hybrid Democratic-Authoritarian Regime ( lemmy.world )
This Man was Lynched and the Police are Covering it Up
Washington State Ban on the Unhoused ( lemmy.world )
Original Article
Prisons are becoming de facto nursing homes ( www.vox.com )
The Pentagon in Hollywood ( lemmy.world )
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unofficial-propaganda-arm-of-the-u-s-military-1.5560575
Every Spanish Source Puts the Total Killed 10x Higher than what the US Admits ( lemmy.world )
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American Human Experimentation - The Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama ( lemmy.world )
Image credit national public radio (NPR)...
Stop Genocide PDX ( lemmy.world )
US Occupying Forces of military police state stations being what they are, we may not be that far from suffering the same fate as Palestine....
May 13, 1985 ( lemmy.world )
1985 MOVE Bombing
The US isn't authoritarian
You're trivializing authoritarianism by focusing on the US. Focus on Iran or Russia instead, then you'd have yourself a fun time.
US Authoritarianism Original Meme ( lemmy.world )
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TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison. ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
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